Interests

The place of
language in social life, and what it means to the community that
linguistics is done here; untamed languages ("Taglish", "Pidgin"
(=Hawai'i Creole English), Zamboangueño, etc.); the various
Englishes of the world (but especially Philippines and Hawai'i);
codeswitching and mixing; language and the law; Philippine Studies,
Southeast Asian studies; ethnopoetics, field work, ethnographic
linguistics, general linguistics.

Selected
Publications

Reviews (1)
of Ellen Basso (1995) The Last Cannibals: A South American oral
history, in Biography 20.2 (Spring 1997); (2) of Jenny
Cheshire, ed. (1991) English Around the World: Sociolinguistic
Perspectives, in World Englishes 11.1: 71-74 (1992).